Setting default browser for Lotus Notes under Linux

If you are using Lotus Notes 8.5 on Linux you've probably noticed how stupid the settings for external browser are! You can choose between internal notes browser or "system default" browser.
You've probably done what I did, set Gnome default browser to Firefox, set KDE default browser to Firefox and still, when you click on a link and Epiphany or Google Chrome comes up showing your page...

To check what "system default" is type:

$ xdg-mime query default text/html
google-chrome.desktop

then to change it, create firefox37.desktop in /usr/local/share/applications:

[Desktop Entry]
Comment[en_US]=
Comment=
Exec=/usr/firefox37/firefox %U
GenericName[en_US]=
GenericName=
Icon=/usr/firefox37/icons/mozicon128.png
MimeType=text/html
Name[en_US]=Firefox 3.7
Name=Firefox 3.7
Path=
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=false
TerminalOptions=
Type=Application
X-DBUS-ServiceName=
X-DBUS-StartupType=
X-KDE-SubstituteUID=false
X-KDE-Username=

Mimetype should be set to what you intend to use it for...

and set it:

$ xdg-mime default firefox37.desktop text/html
$ xdg-mime query default text/html
firefox37.desktop


happy browsing...